3 months state of emergency is in effect, meaning everyone supporting erdogan is allowed to do anything they like, and everyone opposing him is allowed to be done anything by the police (which is de facto situation for a few years but is now de jura). City center has been closed down for "democracy festival" where a stage is built with giant amplifiers, flags hung everywhere, etc. (you'd expect curfews and all in a state of emergency, right?) People pressuring the mayor for late night buses have been ignored and students protesting for cheaper transportation have been detained for years, and now mayor is giving free bus service any hour of day just so people can gather at the squares. Such hypocrisy... Erdogan has been planting followers of gulen in army and other bureaucratic positions for years, and now you can be blamed for supporting the coup just for sharing an old video of erdogan praising gulen. A massive purge took place, tens of thousands of bureaucrats, teachers, army personnel have been arrested, many institutons, schools and organizations have been closed down. We even fear to make jokes in whatsapp, rumor has it that policemen ask to see your phone too when they do a routine check at the city center.

24.07.2016, 20:29, "swalow swalow" <sswalow@gmail.com>:

How's the situation in Turkey?
On Jul 24, 2016 2:01 PM, "Bastiani Fortress" <bastianifortress@yandex.com> wrote:
>
> Islam forbids interest (interest as an economy term), and a bank in turkey has been taking interest in such a complicated way (i don't know how, exactly) that it claims they do not take interest and is halal to attract fundematalist clients :D Islam in many ways does resemble socialism, but it's still total bullshit in many other ways. (i say this as an atheist, living in turkey btw)
>
> 24.07.2016, 11:38, "Mirimir" <mirimir@riseup.net>:

>>
>> On 07/23/2016 11:20 PM, Rayzer wrote:

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>>>
>>> On 07/23/2016 10:05 PM, Mirimir wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 07/23/2016 10:35 PM, Александр wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <SNIP>
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you, Rayzer! It's extremely important to purify the True
>>>>> Islamic Religion/Quran from all the garbage the western
>>>>> fuckers/crazy extremists have put on it.
>>>>
>>>> Except for the religious bullshit, it's not far off
>>>> anarchocapitalism.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Like Christianity... It doesn't HAVE TO be capitalist but note
>>> point 5. "It is forbidden in Islam to ignore the reality of
>>> contemporary times..." Contemporary times is Crapitalist times, and
>>> organized religions, for better or worse, will go with that flow.
>>
>>
>> I think that there's market-based stuff in Islam that predates Western
>> capitalism. There's also a lot that anticipates socialism. Building on
>> Christianity. I sometimes wonder where we'd be if Islam had gone
>> global before Christianity did.
>>
>>> As little as I like organized religions they ARE a vehicle for
>>> moving masses of people in a given direction. Too bad psychopaths
>>> take over just as surely as they take over corporations and any
>>> other organizational structure.
>>
>>
>> Yes, too bad :(
>>
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